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What is your Mars Project?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: What becomes possible when we stop treating the limits we have placed around ourselves as permanent? Your Mars Project invites you to think further than you have ever thought and do more than you have ever done, guided by your own definition of prosperity. In Psychogenesis, Jack…
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Live Life in Crescendo
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences When turmoil and discouragement dominate our attention, it is easy to believe that our individual contribution no longer matters. Living life in crescendo invites us to keep growing in usefulness, depth and contribution, trusting that our most important work may still be ahead of us. At the…
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Transformation is not Permanent
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: Transformation is not a permanent state we arrive at, but an ongoing practice of returning to what we intended and choosing it again. The same is true of balance: life keeps shifting, so alignment must be continually renewed. A few days ago, I wrote a Dragonfly Thoughts…
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Living Tomorrow Today
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: Our goals describe the future we hope to create, but that future is ultimately built through the ordinary choices we make every day. Six Seconds’ idea of pursuing a Noble Goal invites us to keep that larger purpose in view, because misalignment can occur when the way…
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Why Play Belongs in Every Well-Lived Life
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: We carefully schedule work because we know it matters, yet we often leave play, curiosity, and renewal to chance, then wonder why they disappear. A strategically aligned life isn’t just one that protects productivity, but one that intentionally makes room for the experiences that restore the person doing the…
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Our Decisions Can Never Consistently Rise Above Our Understanding of Ourselves
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: Leadership development invests heavily in developing what leaders do, yet pays far less attention to understanding the person doing it. Our decisions can never consistently rise above our understanding of ourselves. My reasoned choice is as indifferent to the reasoned choice of my neighbor as to his…
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To What Service Is My Soul Committed?
Today’s 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 in two sentences: 𝗪𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴. 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗔𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘂𝘀’ 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, “𝗧𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱?” 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁…
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What To Do When Your Brain Hijacks Your Day
Some days your brain hijacks the whole thing. That was today. A personal matter reached in, took the wheel, and drove off with the hours I’d meant to spend elsewhere. By the time I looked up, the day was mostly gone. Lost to total derailment. I want to be honest about it, because I think…
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